Wellington-based iwi Ngāti Toa Rangatira has asked ACT leader David Seymour to front up and debate the Treaty Principles Bill.

Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira chief executive Helmut Modlik has labelled Seymour's suggestions to have a national conversation about the Treaty a 'charade'.

Modlik says he hopes this debate will receive plenty of media coverage.

"The audience for the debate I'm hoping for isn't David, it's actually our fellow citizens. I'm really wanting to surface, for New Zealanders, the issues that keep getting alluded to, but never really directly addressed." 

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